This document provides an overview of different types of poetry, including lyrical, dramatic, narrative, and concrete poetry. It discusses poetic elements like similes, metaphors, imagery, personification, and form. Specific poetic forms covered include acrostic, cinquain, haiku, list, limerick, and diamante poetry. Literary devices such as rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and figurative language are also defined. The document serves as a reference guide for understanding poetry genres and techniques.

1. The
Wonderful
World of
Poetry…

2. Lyrical
Poetry
Dramat ic
Poet ry Expresses Narrati
Dramatizes Personal ve
action though thoughts and
emotions.
Poetry
dialogue or Poetry-
monologue

3. Dramatic Poetry
A poem where the speaker is
someone other then the poet
themselves. A Dramatic poem “Meeting At Ni
often includes characters and By Robert
dialogue. A Dramatic Browning
Monologue is often from a
fictional character’s point of
view.

4. “Be Still my
Beating Heart”
- Sting
E x p r e s s e
s “Winter”
e m o t i o n s
, a p p e a l s
-Shakespeare
t o y o u r

5. A Poem that tells a
“The Raven” s tory, and has the
-Edgar Allen
Poe elements of a
s tory. Often
Narrative poems
have a rhyme

6. Metaphor
Simile
When the
Analogy
Author of a
poem writes Imagery
something, Personification
but doesn’t
really mean it

7. A comparison
NOT using like
or as.
“”I t i s
Th e the
wo r l E a s t,
a nd
d
J u lie t
is t h e
is a Romeo, “Romeo and Juliet”, William Shakespeare s u n !”

8. S imiles
• When you compare
something using
l i k e or a s .
• The river is
peaceful, like a new
baby sleeping.
Assignment:
Find the similes in
“Be Still My Beating Heart”

9. I n a poem,
you c an
of t en s ee
t he i mages
t he aut hor
wr i t es
about
When t he
aut hor
pr ovi des
The spring flowers,
vibrant, electrified with
vi s ual
the newness of spring
pi c t ur es as
you r ead.

10. • A COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO
APPARRENTLY DISSIMILAR THINGS
MADE TO CLARIFY A CERTAIN
POINT ABOUT ONE OF THEM.
EXAMPLES:
Glove is to hand as paint is to wall
Citizens are to president as solar system is to galaxy
Horses are to past societies as computers are to future societies

11. When human like qualities are
given to an animal or object.
Example: An overly gregarious
puppy.
A decrepit old car.

12. Who is the
SPEAKER/
VOICE of the
Poem?
What is the tone of
Is it the poet or the poem?
a character in The Point of view can be
the actual poet
the poem? him/herself, but may also
be an animal, an
inanimate object, or a
fictional character.

13. Word
Connotation: Denotation:
The way a word Choice/Diction The actual
makes us feel. dictionary
definition of the
Words can give us word.
different feelings
when we hear
them…some
positive, some
negative, and
everything in
between!
Find some examples in
“Meeting at Night,”
the poem…

14. Irony When something
that wasn’t
expected happens.
Or when the
opposite of what is
expected happens.
For example:
In
“Incident in a Rose Garden
The devil wasn’t
coming for the
gardener, he was
coming for the
farmer!

15. • RHYME
• RHYTHM
• REPETITION
• REFRAIN
• ALLITERATION
• ASSONANCE
• ONOMATOPOEIA

16. • RHYME – REPETITON OF SIMILAR
SOUNDS.
• RHYTHM – PATTERN OF STRESSED
AND UNSTRESSED SYLLABLES IN
EACH LINE. THE POEM HAS A
REGULAR BEAT.
• RHYME SCHEME – A PATTERN OF
RHYMES IN A POEM.

17. VS.
Refrain is Repetition
when a poem is when a
repeats entire word or
lines or more phras e is
s ev eral times repeated
throug hout. jus t once or
in one
Like the
s pecific
chorus of a
area of the
s ong
poem.

18. Mus ical Devices
• Alliteration • Assonance
When the same When the same vowel
sound is used in words
consonant sound is
throughout a piece of
used throughout a writing
piece of writing.
That is the way we will
candy covered coconuts. pray today, okay?

19. Onomatopoeia
word that expresses
sound…
Zip,
zoom,
bang,
boom

20. Poetic FormS
FORM – THE WAY A POEM LOOKS ON A PAGE.
LINES – POEMS ARE WRITTEN IN LINES, WHICH MAY
OR MAY NOT BE IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
STANZA – IN SOME FORMS OF POETRY, LINES ARE
GROUPED INTO STANZAS.
STRUCTURED FORM – POEMS WITH A REGULAR,
REPEATED PATTERN.
FREE VERSE – POEMS WITHOUT A REGULAR
PATTERN.
Some forms include: Acrostic,
Cinquain, Concrete, Haiku, List,
Limerick, Diamante

21. ACROSTIC POETRY
AN ACROSTIC POEM IS
ONE WHERE YOU
CHOOSE A WORD OR
NAME AND UE EACH
LETTER IN THE NAME
AS THE BEGINNING OF
A WORD OR LINE THAT
TELLS SOMETHING

22. HAIKU
A poem where
there are “You”
I Love you so
5 syllables in the much,
1st line; I long to see
your beauty,
7 in the second
Pg 11 line; Love the way
you shine,
rd

23. The
“Modern”
Cinquain Sister
Smart, Outgoing
Cinquain
s Loving, playing, Laughing
Always in for some fun
•A Cinquain is a poem that resembles
diamond.
•It has 5 lines and begins with one
Friend word.
•The 2nd line has two adjectives that
“Tucson Rain”
describe that word.
“Traditional” The smell
Cinquain •The 3rd , three verbs.
Everyone moves
•The 4th line is a phrase that goes
To the window to look
deeper into the topic.
Work stops and people
start talking •The 5th line gives either a synonym f
the first word, or a word that
Pg 10 Rain came
encompasses the whole poem.

24. The lis t poem is a very
old form of poetry. It
itemizes things or
events . Lis t poems
can be of any length,
rhymed, or

25. Poetry in which
authors use both
words and physical
shape to convey a
message.

26. Another Concrete Poem

27. A SHORT, HUMOUROUS POEM
COMPOSED OF FIVE LINES. IT
USUALLY HAS THE RHYME
SCHEME AABBA, CREATED BY TWO
RHYMING COUPLETS FOLLOWED
BY A FIFTH LINE THAT RHYMES
WITH THE FIRST COUPLET. A
LIMERICK TYPICALLY HAS A SING-
SONG RHYTHM.

28. Poetry Resources Page
Helpful Links for you!
Types of Poems
http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC030240/typesofpoems.html
Samples of Narrative Poetry
http://www.babincentral.com/7english/narrative_poetry.htm
Lyrical Poetry
www.lyrics.com
Finding Poetry
www.poemhunter.com